PC World - USA (2019-08)

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104 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

FEATURE THE BEST PC GAMES OF 2019 (SO FAR)


arcane-looking phrases like “Flag Is Win” and
“Water Is Hot” and the titular “Baba Is You.”
Your task is to push these blocks around,
redefining the very rules of the puzzle in your
favor. Stuck behind a wall? Well, maybe you
should become the wall—or rather, Wall Is You.
Of course, the difficulty escalates.
Immutable rules, either placed outside your
reach or tucked into corners where they can’t be
manipulated, force you to get creative with your
solutions, creating long chains of cause and
effect where Crab Is You and You Are Melt and
Water Is...nothing? Oh,now I can get across
that river. And so on and so forth. Baba Is You is
smart, it’s addictive, and I’ve derived the utmost
satisfaction from its “Eureka!” moments.

RESIDENT EVIL 2
TRAILER: GO.PCWORLD.COM/RE2
Resident Evil 2 (go.pcworld.com/rev2) is the
Resident Evil that finally made me a fan—and I
don’t mean the 1998 original, I mean the
remake this year. After years of trying and

ow, look at the time! I think
I say this every year, but I
can’t believe we’re halfway
through 2019 already. And
it’s been a busy 2019 as well. This list of the
best games of the year so far is already so
strong, it feels like a proper end-of-2019
Game of the Year list. Hell, I had to cut some
perfectly deserving games because we ran
out of space. Did I mention this is only the
middle of the year?
And it’s only going to get worse from here,
with high-profile releases like Doom Eternal and
Control still to come in 2019. And then 2020’s
spring gauntlet of Cyberpunk 2077 (go.pcworld.
com/2077), Dying Light 2 (go.pcworld.com/
dl2), Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2
(go.pcworld.com/vmb), Watch Dogs Legion (go.
pcworld.com/wdl), and on and on.
Good years ahead. But before we get there,
let’s take a moment to recount the best games
of 2019 so far—maybe some you played, and
probably at least a few you haven’t gotten
around to yet. (Note: This list is in
no particular order, except the
final entry.)

BABA IS YOU
TRAILER: GO.PCWORLD.COM/BABA
Baba Is You is a fiendish puzzler
with simple rules. So simple, in
fact, they’re laid out for you to
see. Every puzzle consists of a
series of text blocks, Baba Is You
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